the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan, programs manager for the u.s. botanic garden, jim adams, horticultural manager from the united states botanic garden, and jim mcdaniel, board of directors, like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. chapelle. please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. both of our other panelist our named jim and both worked on white house gardens. at the end am going to let you ask questions. we are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and modified since the kennedy administration. so from the johnson administration on. in many different ways, the white house gardens have been inspired and used. the start out by talking about garden trends and movements that have inspired and influenced the development of the

bush white house. she has degrees from new college in sarasota, florida and the university of missouri columbia. to her immediate left is tamara keith, who joined npr in 2009, and has been a white house correspondent for national public radio since 2014. she co-hosts the npr politics podcast, which is the top political podcast in america. and i admit, it is something i listen to every single week. >> thank you. >> miss keith has covered the trump administration from day one. covered the final two years of the obama presidency, as well as covering the 2016 presidential campaign, when she was assigned to cover hillary clinton. in 2018, she was elected to serve on the board of the white house correspondents association. she has worked for a number of npr affiliate stations, including wosu in columbus ohio, and kpcc, southern california public radio. she has degrees from the university of california berkeley and the ucb graduate school of journalism. last but not least, she is a member of the bad news babe

the white house. and then, joint sessions develop later, mostly with foreign leaders that the president has those sessions. and then, you have exchanges with reporters. those are the short q&a's that take place on the south lawn with the helicopter whirling in the background, or in the roosevelt room, or the oval office, and sometimes in the cabinet room. these are much more informal sessions. then, the third types are interviews. and so, the last two, the exchanges with reporters and interviews, have increased. in trump's case, he has had many more. when you look at the six presidents, trump has 442. these figures are by the end of june. 442 short question-and-answer sessions, which sometimes can involve one question, but most times are many minutes, and it can go up to 20 minutes or so. they are sessions where the president, especially in the marine one ones, it is a somewhat chaotic situation. and -- [laughter] martha: with people with ladders, cameras, edging their way in. it's a setting where in

here is one from the white house briefing room.oug: that one got a lot of interesting comments on twitter. it was a day when we had seen the president couple times, i believe. the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, who i have gotten to really know and respect, she has the toughest job in the white house, by far, she was doing her daily briefing. because we had seen the president a couple of times and where my desk is at the white house reading room, it is all the way in the back. i can hear on the pa when the secretary comes in and starts speaking. i was not planning to go out and photograph her until question started. when she said she had a guest with her, i grabbed my camera and run up to the briefing room. that would be his first time in the briefing room. all of a sudden, a feed shows on the monitor. all of a sudden it was like, this is a first, i have never seen this. it was an interesting day. her face -- the questions that she got about it, they were interesting. but again, she has a tough job. just like s

stewart: my name is stuart, the president of the white house historical association. it is my privilege to welcome many of you back to the historic decatur house and the white house historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. tonight is one of the annual national heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u.s. capitol historical society and the u.s. supreme court historical society, and we have our wonderful colleagues from both tonight, and we would like to welcome you here today. on june 4, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. the silver just used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to their cause. tonight, we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure women's right to vote. speaker,introduce our i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. first of all, we have guests from smith college tonight, the washington club of smith college. stand up, the washington club of smith college crowd. [applause] they are

we came back to the white house. typically, once you get inside the gates of the white house, there is a sense of relief that you have accomplished her mission. there is a little bit of a deep breath. just as we are pulling up to the oval office area where the president gets out, you have seen it many times in a press where he will walk up to the oval office, we got over the radio that there was a fence jumper. the french jumper was over on the ease part of the complex over by the treasury building. i was sitting in the right front seat of the limousine and i had to turn back to the president and say, we have a fence jumper and we have to stand in the vehicle until we get the issue resolved. and he said, a fence jumper, where? he started looking behind him and looking through. i was kind of glad for that response. on, he few seconds goes cannot see the fence jumper and i am not hearing it's all clear yet. we say we have to get into the over office -- oval office. time i knew the uniformed officers and the to get this

bush white house invited the chinese president at the time to come visit the white house. and again, this is just one of those times in life when it was clear this might not work. i mean, it was at least clear it was going to be very tense from the beginning. i think it was maybe even clear from the beginning that it was going to go badly. i mean, in the first instance the chinese wanted hu jintao to be given the full state treatment. george w. bush said, no, it will just be an official visit, which is one big wrung down the ladder in terms of protocol and pomp and circumstance. the chinese wanted hu jintao to have a state dinner at the white house. george w. bush white house said, nope, we want you to come, but we're not willing to give you dinner. how about lunch? then an even bigger problem. hurricane katrina blew ashore in the gulf coast and devastated the great american city of new orleans and the bush administration, of course, disastrously botched the response to that hurricane. huh jintao's visit had originally been scheduled for the week new orleans had almost bee

one evening at the white house. president and first lady were heading out. we saw his son, barron was up by the motorcade. i saw him walk across the lawn. normally, we are not allowed to photograph any of the children. we always give them that respect that we aren't going to photograph him unless the president is around. because he was around and we thought he was leaving, the ball started rolling, i thought i should get this. in case they see this video. so, i started photographing. as soon as the two boys saw the tv cameras, they put their jackets over their head. which made it kind of funny and different. you know, the boy, barron always has a secret service agent with him. so, just like every member of the trump family and like every member of the obama family group -- family, they had constant secret service around. i think they just like, sasha and melia, going to school, barron has secret service with him in school. brian this is a unique photo. : people can see your stuff independently on twitter. how do the

the white house can see it. i just published a piece updating some charts that the administration had used in september to show us all how great the economy was doing. and by almost every measure that they used to sell the health of the economy, things have gotten worse. growth has slowed. we're not in recession territory yet in terms of growth but manufacturing is essentially in a recession. and we have a lot of reason to be worried about the overall health of the global economy. so in that environment, yeah, there's real reason to be worried, especially if you are a president who has, you know, a stronger ratings -- poll ratings on the economy than on almost any other issue and you're facing re-election next year. they have every reason to be both trying to talk up the strength of the economy, trying to talk to consumers who remain the big engine of growth while at the same time making contingency plans for what if things get worse because of these external and self-inflicted headwinds? >> so you have, at the

the white house typically gets the best of the best.stephen miller generally wouldn't have a place to shine in the white house of any other administration but he's here because this administration has picked up a bunch of individuals to do their bidding. >> the post pressing this man credited with the most hardline immigration policies on claims from co-workers he harbors racist views listen to part of his answer. >> anybody who says that is an ignorant fool, liar, and reprobate who has no place in civilized society. >> what's your reaction to that? >> sounds crazy. even his response, the way his tone sounded, sounds a little unstable. look, stephen miller has been operating in sort of a shadows of washington for a long time. he worked for michelle bachmann, who, of course, notoriously held a hard line on immigration, and now he is on the front lines of the issue. he has singular control over one of the most important consequential issues of not just our lifetime but also going up into the 2020 election. so it's nerve-racking how much o

though some white house officials are pushing back. the president publicly supported background checks and the expanded background checks in the days after the mass shootings in dayton and el paso that killed 31 people. tonight cnn is learning folks in the white house from capitol hill and outside groups have all been pressures the president to turn away. that may be exactly what is behind this change in tone. >> we have very, very strong background checks right now. but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don't complete the whole circle. and we're looking at different things. and i have to tell you that it is a mental probable problem. i've said it a hundred times it's not the gun that pulse the trigger. it's the person that pulse that tryinger >> outfront now rob aft trin o. and our democratic strategist and comment tare. rob is the president kachg to the nra. >> it's typical like president obama would talk to planned parenthood. this is advocacy. there are 5 million people members of the nra. many more tens of millions not

isn't there an irony here that it is the white house itself that it is the white house itself thatise house itself that is at times stoking extremism and online, on twitter? online and in mainstream media as well. i see this a little bit as a way of distracting from taking responsibility on the part of the white house for that and on the gun control laws. i'm not saying you don't need to do something, you do, it's difficult but it is by no means the only piece of response that we should be looking for from, particularly, the us government to think about how you deal with these incidents. do you think it is a deliberate smoke show by the white house to put out statements like this? yes. you believe so. in your view? in my view, yes. that is not to say we should do nothing online, of course we should, a lot of workers going into that. it is a handy fall guy for where the blame, perhaps, really lies. mike weston, thank you very much. shares of ride hailing giant uber have been falling sharply in extended wall street trade, that's after it reported weak results. the firm's loss widened t

>> look, nobody in this white house or few people in this white house spent as much time close to the president physically every day as madeleine westerhaut. she had an office just outside of the oval office. she was a gatekeeper for the president. if you wanted to have a chance to talk to him, she was a good person to know in the west wing. and so for her to suddenly be on the outs was shocking to a lot of people. she had been seen as one of the people in his inner circle. mind you, she had previously worked for other republicans. she was not originally a trump supporter in the primaries. but she had works her way into his level of trust. so when he heard about these comments, apparently she had made at this dinner, obviously, you know, pushed over a line that he was willing to tolerate. he says, as he always does, he blames the media. nobody in the media reported on these, that i saw. this got around the white house because they were pretty surprising things for somebody to say, even in a private setting. >> jill, it was interesting too, some of the reporting out there suggests mayb

she is at the white house this morning. sarah, the white house portrayed a very different reception. they even released a sort of propaganda-like video on social media showing a warm reception, but the facts seem to counter the white house messaging here. >> that's right, jim. the white house did try to portray the president's visits to dayton and el paso as sort of a demonstration of the president's ability to act presidential in these kinds of situations. for example, his social media director, claiming that trump had been refused like a rock star at those places. and president trump, as you mentioned, had disputed the characterizations of local officials in dayton while he was flying from dayton to el paso to visit the scene of the other mass shooting, saying that they had mischaracterized his visit, even though democratic mayor of dayton, nan whaley, ohio senator sher odd brown, both of them had been dmikplitry of the visit itself. the eight surviving victims still being treated at the university medical center in texas

he served in the white house as deputy assistant to the president and appointment secretary and he was there on the night of the phone call. dwight, welcome. [ applause ] next to the white another longtime nixon aide, also in the administration from the first day, larry higbee, deputy assistant to the president. he works closely with bob alderman and he is a member of our board and one of the driving members of the foundation for many years. welcome back. and on my left, a man i just met for the first time tonight but i have heard about him for years. john price was a special assistant to the president and executive secretary of the urban affairs council. a true mover of domestic policy in the white house along with daniel patrick monahan. i want to begin if i could because the moon landing and the moon phone call is for many of us a perceived memory. i remember it. i am 13 and i was 63 now. i remember being woken up to watch it on tv and listen to it at 11:48 or whatever it was to be there. but most people learn about it from their parents or their grandparents. alex, i had occasion t

something white house aides repeatedly denied over the last 24 hours. but he's not considering it because he's worried about the economy. the president insisting that move would have nothing to do with increased fears of recession. instead use the opportunity to once again slam federal reserve chairman jerome powell. pamela brown starts us off today from the white house. >> reporter: president trump pushing back against recession fears. >> i think the word recession is a word that is inappropriate. >> reporter: and defending the u.s. economy to reporters in the oval office today. >> we're very far from a recession. in fact, if the fed would do its job, i think we would have a tremendous spurt of growth. a tremendous spurt. >> reporter: the president starting on twitter sharing a dozen tweets from allies and supporters praising his administration's efforts on the economy. from vice president pence, our economy is thriving and americans are winning to the rnc chairwoman, economic confidence is at record highs. but even as the trump administration touts th

who was running that at the white house?my answer would be the white house communications agency and that is a part of the department of defense. when their sheet came in, it is the one that says the presidents call and it puts the time and it says the call to the sea of tranquility, the moon. we have those notes in the exhibition. how much time did he spend prepping for what he would say to the astronauts? do any of you know? >> i don't. >> i can't say. >> probable considerable time knowing him. i can imagine he was in the office with a pad on his lap and he wrote out several different thoughts you might have and how he would do it. this is a man who always prepared. he always wanted to tell the story about winston churchill and how one time 70 came up to winston churchill and said, how -- someone came up to winston churchill and said how do you do that, it is so great. and winston church hillside part of the work i -- winston churchill said part of the work i do is writing out those responses. >> one of the things we alway

importantly, the one issued by the white house where it mentions domestic terrorism twice. s not mention white supremacy. so dhs officials we've learned have been pushing for the white house to make this more of a concern. to make this a greater priority for the administration. to focus in on domestic terrorism. tonight, a senior administration official from the white house defending the final strategy report, saying that it was the first ever to include domestic terrorism in the report. and the senior administration official put it this way saying it continues to be a priority for this administration and the national security council has launched an inagency process focused on combatting domestic terrorism in support of the president's counter terrorism strategy. wolf, tonight, that really doesn't seem to be enough for those former and current senior administration officials who are speaking out, telling jake tapper that dhs has been pushing the white house to make domestic terrorism more of a priority for more than a year. and really, the white house only mentioning it twi

. >>> we're also watching the white house. president trump is about to head out once again, which means he could very well head to the cameras once again. will he cancel another state visit? will he explain why he really canceled his visit to denmark? will he explain why he's backing down from supporting stronger background checks for gun owners? and will he lay out how seriously he really is about pushing new tax cuts as fears grow about an economic slowdown? this just as a new cnn poll shows for the first time in trump's presidency americans' perception of the economy is on the decline. let's get to it. cnn's sarah westwood is in louisville, kentucky, where president trump is headed today. sarah, first on greenland. are you hearing anything more from the white house on the president's decision to postpone this meeting with the prime minister? >> reporter: well, kate, president trump's stated reason for not heading to copenhagen is the fact that the danish prime minister had signaled that the government was not interested in

the white house denied it to us.ident was asked directly if he and advisors were talking about cutting payroll taxes and here is how he answered. >> so we're talking about indexing and always looking at the capital gain stacks, payroll tax. we're looking at i would love to do something on capital gains, we're talking about that. >> so there is confirming what his an mid station, at least some members were denying to us last night in addition to that he called on the fed to significantly cut interest rates, in order, between that and the tax cuts, the president called for just the kind of measures would one take the economy is slowing down, something top advisors have been going on the v and denying for days. just this morning one of the president's spokes people hogan gidley was denying payroll taxes were being discussed but actually admitted it seconds later in the same interview. >> it's not being considered at this time but he's looking at options to give back the hard-earned money they made. >> if there were to b

one senior source says the white house has major ideological blinders on.hen the national counter interest or rimp strategy was released last fall, the white house did add a paragraph about other forms of extremism but failed to even specifically reference white supremacists. >>> new this morning, the national rifle president is warning president trump. his support for background checks on gun purchases will not be popular. this is what the president said about background checks on wednesday. >> well, i'm looking to do background checks. i think background checks are important. i don't want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hate. sick people. i don't want to -- i'm all in favor of it. >> the president, all in favor there, but he's gone back and forth on gun control before. white house officials say he's torn between wanting to do more and growing concern that doing more would cause a revolt from his base. >>> president trump spent wednesday visiting the scenes of both weekend massacres, dayton, ohio, and el paso,

bush white house invited the president of china hu jintao to come visit the white house. it was clear this would not work. it was clear it would be tense from the beginning. i mean in the first instance t chinese wanted hu jintao to get a full state treatment. george w. bush says no, it won't be a state's visit but an official visit, in terms of protocol and poms and circumstances. the chinese wanted hu jintao to have dinner at the white house. george w. bush says no, we want you to come but we are not going to giver y you dinner but how at lunch. the bush's administration, disaster rousley botched to the hurricane. it had to be called off the last minute because of katrina and got postponed until months later. april, 2006, they were at last able to do this difficult thing. it then turned out to be a nice day. jintao got his 21 salute and they brought out the drum cord which was a cool thing to see in the colonial drum core outfit. quickly things start to go off the rail. you can tell that in part. the archive ap footage summing up that day is slugged with this title. "an

super 8 camera into the white house. >> yes. >> how often did you take a super 8 camera to the whitento the white house every day, and bob haldeman had one, i had one and we used it. here's footage. there's roger aels, technical adviser that went on to notoriety at fox. there's bob haldeman at his desk, working on some papers. you'll see in a second that he's conferring with roger ales, this is during the day while we were waiting. there was a lot of waiting time this particular day. there's frank borman, he is in the president's office off of the oval office, that's the set on which president nixon watched the lunar landing. there's frank on the phone, probably with nasa. and these are home movies we took. and they're 50 years old. so the quality of it, there's the little tv that the president watched it from. i think that's frank reynolds. ron zigler. this is the press room. that was the official photographer, the guy with the cigar was bruce wheelahan. the guy with this cigar was me. don't ask why we smoked cigars, but we did. and we really staked ourselves into the cabinet room t

phil, what are you learning about the subpoena for lewandowski and for another former trump white house official? >> yeah, wolf, these are two central issues for the house democrats on the judiciary committee, who have really ra d ramped up their investigation, ramped up their pressure relating to potential impeachment. talking about how they may actually draft impeachment articles by the end of this year and this goes to the center of that investigation. potential obstruction of justice. corey lewandowski and rick dearborn, former top white house official, were featured prominently in the mueller report red lighted to president trump's efforts to curtail the mueller investigation. in one instance, president trump dictated, according to the mueller report, to corey lewandowski directly, a message to be shared with then attorney general jeff sessions about curtailing that investigation. a month later, the president checked in with corey lewandowski to see if it had been done. it had not. so corey lewandowski went to rick dearborn, who is the former chief of staff of then senator jeff ses

in the white house.theya nixon cox told would look from the television to the oval, from the oval to the television, because they couldn't believe what they were watching. part, i'm wondering if your father mentioned this to you, when it was done, your grandfather arrived. they went down to greet him. he was completely humbled by the event, totally overwhelmed by the courage of the astronauts and staggered by the history of the moment. has that come through to you? to your mom as well? >> yes. she says he was really excited about it. he thought it was a great opportunity. speech he talked about the gray service -- surface of the moon. i think he saw it as an amazing opportunity. >> we are going to talk about the context first before we get to the phone call. inyou all know this began 1957. i was a year-old, it wasn't my fault, the russians launched sputnik one. let's get the reaction to sputnik. go ahead. splat -- a slap in the face to american complacency. we were in the eisenhower presidency, the nine

white house denied it. they denied it to us and to "the wall street journal." the president just confirmed what they have been busy denying. at this point it's not clear if we should believe anything a white house spokesperson says or what the president says for that matter because they just contradict each other constantly and themselves. we'll have more on the double talk in a second. because a lot of it is on camera and you have to see it to believe it. one spokesperson denied it and confirmed it in the same interview, which is, i mean, that takes skill. that's the best people. i want to begin by discussing and focussing on the other presidential double talk we saw today about background checks for gun buyers. after the mass shootings in el paso and dayton, the president was talking about meaningful background checks. confirmation he's not looking at background checks. we'll be joined by a reporter of details the president may have fully caved a phone conversation with the head of the nra. it's not the f

>> there is always fighting among senior white house staff. a conversation with one of the press that even though there's been more infighting with senior staff in the last year or so that seems to challenge the competency of them is just as much as the early days of trump's presidency. the situation that westerhout was in of being able to block access to the president is going to have enemies and rivals and people who dislike her. that's unfortunate, but it's part of the job. >> i want to get your reaction to tweeting out what experts say most certainly is an image of a satellite or drone showing the aftermath of that accident. betsy, is this something the president can share without the association of his aides? >> the president has the ultimate classification authority. anything the press has access to the president has the legal authority to share with the public. the problem is there's too much classification when it comes to national security issues. in this case what the president tweeted was certainly interesting and newsworthy. i'm no

shannon pettypiece senior white house reporter for msnbc news. and the new economics editor for "the washington post" who just got there and has already broke this story we're talking about, about these payroll tax discussions. and my friend dan nathan principal at risk reversal advisers and cnbc contributor. shannon, to you first. preparing for a recession does make sense. it's like taking an umbrella out if it might rain. but has the administration boxed itself into a corner if they continue to say there are no signs of a recession and it's the best economy ever? >> if you listen carefully to what they've been saying, they are ig are saying everything is fine and okay now. when you push them on what about next year you see them starting to stumble. behind the scenes there is definitely growing anxiety about what the economy is going to look like in 2020 and the main thing i hear people focused on doing is trying to get a trade deal with china. they obviously see it is a big overhang in the markets. in the past there's been sort of a wing in the

it is hard to imagine who in the white house would do a good job with that. >> speaking of white house scenarios, he talked to run was given the escalations between the united states and washington into rome, give a really vivid high political scenario where israel and iran reach and force united states to become involved in our ally but in the scenario described the situation room where the president is informed and blocked their readin. and they say begin bombing around, do you think that's a scenario that is truly possible and if so is it about this white house or any white house and how the cyber war escalates. >> it's a short piece of fiction in the book. and i think it's realistic. after that piece of fiction, we take it apart, we analyze the fiction and say this happened in the fictional scenario, we go through and deconstruct it and i think the conclusion is yes it can happen and almost did, three weeks for the book came out united states did a cyber attack and my co-author and i looked at each other and said our scenario is going to take place before our book is out. it'd only

>>> plus exclusive reporting today on how the white house snubbed its own administration officials who thought combatting white supremacy should be a higher terrorism priority. >>> plus president trump being accused of weaponizing hate by a potential 2020 democratic opponents who called for tighter gun restrictions at the site of a rampage. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. and we begin with breaking news. in minutes we expect president trump to arrive in el paso, texas. he will make his second visit today to an american community devastated after two men committed horrific acts of carnage and violence, murdering 31 people in two mass shootings speaker pelo -- shootings 13 hours apart. today he visited a hospital that treated multiple victims where nine people were killed. protesters greeted the president there in dayton and more protesters are awaiting the president's arrival in el paso, where the accused domestic terrorist echoed some of the language used by the president when talking about latino immigrants. particularly the notion

a white house spokesperson tells the "times" we would welcome them to the white house in the future should future date work out. >>> a surprise news in the nfl over the weekend as the team's starting quarterback, andrew luck announced his retirement. nbc news correspondent ron mott has the detail sg. >> this was not an easy decision. >> a brutal sport has lost a warrior. >> the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football. >> indianapolis colts quarterback andrew luck after a string of injuries signdelined m for long stretches, including the entire 2017 season announced he's quitting at age 29. >> it's taken my joy of this game away. >> and now you're starting to hear the reaction of some of the fans. >> the news was not immediately welcomed by home fans who booed. one fan taking off luck's number 12 jersey. >> i'd be lying if i didn't hear the reaction. it hurt. >> former nfl player daunte sta stallworth understands the decision. >> to take as many hits as he has day in and day out, over 17 years, i can't imagine what he's going through. >> luck, cwas the number one pik of th

the white house said that is being misinterpreted. the press secretary saying the president's regret was that he was not tougher on china and that the tariffs weren't more stringent. so inverting the way many people read that moment in the room. you asked me to explain what the president meant there, chuck. i can't tell you. i can only look at what the president is saying and doing. the issue here at the g7 is he's saying and doing things that are contradictory. in this instance, for example, of these china tariffs and whether or not the president is having second thoughts, the white house seems to want it both ways in front of two different audiences. this is a president, chuck, who knows how to read the room. he's in a room now, right, and he was in that instance, with other leaders who are gently pushing back on the issue of trade. he gets that. this is a president who at least for this trip does not want to be, it seems, the wrecking ball. that's different from other summits. in this instance, the president wants to portray that e

in a moment we will speak alive with white house economic advisor larry kudlow about reports the whiteouse is trying to reassure key players the economy is on firm footing. but first, kevin corke is live with is now with the latest. kevin. >> dana, thanks to an inverted yield curve, fears of the dreaded r word, recession, are sweeping from wall street to main street but the white house is doubling down on its economic policies, completely convied the u.s. economy is not just the best in the world, it's the best bet for american voters in 2020. >> if the week that was almost ray earned a letter grade it would get a v volatility. with the dow imitating roller coaster. slide and 1.5%. a reaction, say experts, safe, to a number of factors including the u.s. china trade dispute. ongoing unrest in hong kong and the inverted yield curve with longer notes like the 10-year offering less than shorter treasuries like the two-year period even as a 30-year yield fell to an all-time record low. and while they're all to are signs of optimism, for example, retail sales have jumped 3.4% from a year ago

white house has responded to taylor swift. this is what the white house says.ing they oppose discrimination. however, quote, the house passed bill in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine threatened unconscious rights. what do you want to say to the white house right now? >> i would just want to say to the white house, i don't -- to me it doesn't matter what -- how beautifully written your response is at the end of the day and the core of the statement there is still hate in that statement. i don't know what poison pills or things that would -- that would prevent you from having parental -- being a great parent in that statement. i think at the end of the day, you know what is right and you know what is wrong and you know that everybody deserves to have equal rights and i applaud taylor for fighting that and i will continue to fight that battle with her. >> and plainview, texas, boy and wanted to be aerial in the little mermaid and what is your message to little boys and girls who feel different and misunderstood. >> keep fight

how is this affecting discussions at the white house? because that is just nowhere in tune with what the message that's coming out of the president or the white house. >> right. but those forecasts and the unease broadly about the possibility of a recession in the near future, that is the reason folks inside the white house are having these discussions at all about coming up with something to stablize the economy ahead of the election because the president for all his cheerleading understands that if the economy takes a nosedive that that is a real big problem for him. yes, he is under water with his approval rating anyway even in the good economy but this is a guy who has been out there for two and a half years now, taking credit for the american economy every time there is a good jobs report going, to say all of the world leaders are congratulating him on what he says is the hottest economy around. the way he talks about it and the way he has tried to sell it maybe they can continue to just get by on bluster but i think the president a

you served in the white house with obama.ats thinking when they're going after the former president legacy here? >> i don't think it's a smart tactic. i will say that they're not attacking obama specifically. which is obviously smart when you have someone who is has a 97% approval rating. within the democratic party. they are attacking the policies. and the real smart thing to do is say look, we want to build on the great success of president obama. it's like we're saying when fdr passed social security in 1935 people say we didn't go far enough. and medicare and medicaid that was not far enough. we have taken great strides with the affordable care act. we need to cover more people. it's not right that 28 million americans don't have insurance. and i want to build upon that work. that's the message we need to have. the circular firing squad i do not think is the right long term strategy. i hope we'll see that start to change. >> will is right. obama is incredibly popular. 95% aremoval rating in the last year of the presidency

when you talk to people who are inside this white house, close to the white house, people who talk tot, they will remind you that gun rights enthusiasts are the most active of the trump conservative base. if the president disappoints those voters, that could spell big trouble. david hogg joins us know. i'm wondering, first of all, what your response is to this -- the idea that they're going to have some gun proposals by -- when congress comes back. >> i love the idea. but it's painful to see this again and again if i'm being honest. >> this is what he did after parkland. it's exactly what he did after parkland and it's zpaexactly wh he's done again and again. and i think what we need to realize is we got to tell him that he can't keep doing that. if you're going to say you're going to do something, do it. donald trump says he's a man of his word. he says that, you know, he is someone that is able to get his job done and able to take action and he's not controlled by anyone. prove it. prove that you're not controlled by the nra. that's what i would say to him. and realize that when you

cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins me live here in dayton. the president's coming to a difficult moment here, a divided moment in this country. he said a lot this morning as he was leaving the white house. how is he going to handle this? >> that's going to be something he has to grapple with while he's here. >> i don't mean to interrupt. what are folks behind us saying? they're saying "do something." that's what governor mike dewine heard yesterday when he was trying to speak. that's the emotion here. but please go ahead. >> yeah, you see some of the signs critical of the president. dump trump, flip the senate, talking about the politics in washington that's come under such scrutiny in the wake of these mass shootings. the president is going to be following the typical role of a commander in chief. it sadly has been their job too many times after a mass shooting, meeting with law enforcement, meeting with families of victims, some of the victims themselves. also, the president is going to be facing the resistance he's seen from local official

she was a very powerful figure in the white house.ple that guard access to the president of the united states, that control access to the president of the united states are very powerful people even though their titles don't tell you that. she's a very, very powerful person in the trump white house. and what they have to be concerned about now is going forward. it's not enough to release her, to say she did something that was not forgivable. mortgage important thing is based on her financial situation, will she take a book deal? someone that close to the president could write a tell-all book and make millions of dollars, or will the trump campaign take care of her and put her in the campaign in some sort of significant paying capacity? they have to consider what to do with her going forward. >> yesterday the president saying tariffs on chinese goods are still set to go into effect tomorrow. j joe, talk about the effect it will have on the american consumer this is the $64,000 question. do you think the president will hold his ground o

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and then ended at the white house. social status through television. trying to build a new constituency for the republican party through that language of television. and for the republican party and dwight eisenhower, it worked. media analysts after the 1952 election noted that eisenhower and republicans used this new medium more effectively to attract a wider range of voters and to bring in new people to the republican party. and so i think that's a really key thing here. thinking about how you can use a new medium to bring in individuals that may not have been engaged in the political process before. they may not be invested in voting like workers are whose negotiating rights depended on building that new deal coalition or farmers who some of their economic interests depending on these new deal programs. rather, you're appealing to media consumers and finding a way to get them invested emotionally into the political process. so one of the effective things that eisenhower does is he brings these innovations from the c

how does the white house see it? >> jim, this is another wrinkle in the white house's efforts to calm fears of economic strain. we heard peter navarro try to downplay this and we asked the white house for an official statement about the tariffs. we haven't heard back yet. recall that last week president trump did delay the imposition of additional tariffs on some chinese goods, delayed them until december. but that was not necessarily an olive branch to china. that was, in fact, something that the president did largely because he was afraid of how those tariffs could potentially affect americans during the christmas shopping season. that's what sources told cnn at the time. and those were tariffs that he decided to move forward with earlier this month after a period of relative calm over the summer. recall that in june, president trump indefinitely suspended the kplen ta implementation of the new tariffs. that was when he last sat down with xi jinping at the summit. they have hit a snag and the administration not see

the white house hosted a summit with tech companies. particular,s in facebook and twitter.ng to the university of theland, those are two of top three social media platforms used by extremist groups and individuals. i want to bring in professor of social media at syracuse newhouse school of public communications and in atlanta, once a special agent in charge of homeland security investigations new york field office. insomeone who has worked federal law enforcement, do meetings like this accomplish much? >> i think they can. the administration is trying to do and many administrations, several, as we've seen an increase in social is trying to implore the technology companies, how is, the platform they provide and the information that could be shared that could be detrimental and could provide makingency if someone is threats or statements they will be violent. talking to these try toes is helpful and foster that collaboration is necessary. leads tor not it substantive actions today, next week, building the relationship is critical. the origin ofg at some of these mass shooting